Yeah I think I'm diving off the deep-end. Yet I'm doing so willingly.... What could I possibly do to make my life worse?
NaNoWriMo. I have decided I need to write more. Good. I'll soon be getting more time when Cross Country ends... Good. So I'm gonna write a 50.000 word novel in a month. WHAT? I honestly cant say I agree with my own decision. I've entered though, I have to try. I'm making character profiles. I had an outline, it needs tweaking (ei: changing from S/A fanfic to original story set in college). I'm comforted by the constant reassurances that I will be writing crap. I can get out what I need to actually turn it into a novel that could possibly be publishable. YAY! I also don't have to work Sundays anymore, so I have even more free time, except for this Sunday (an open house at school). I'm excited, this will be one of my first really long original work. I've been tweaking characters from their Yu-Gi-Oh counterparts into (very) different characters. Some characters are more different than others. Like I've made some characters very Catholic (a view of my ultraconservative friends). I've given some characters a parent when they had died (yes the Kaiba brother counterparts now have a father). I'm combining Joey and Tristan, sorry if you're a fan but really I don't need both of them (I think). I am giving Yugi a personality overhaul. You'll be able to see parts of Yugi in him, but I can't say how hard you'll have to squint. Seto has a dead girlfriend. Mokuba is a video-game addict. And Tea one of the few similar traits of hers is that she dances. This definitely takes place...in America. (Oh you saw the joke coming). And well the parents in the story will suck. They will be terrible parents. The one good parent, is dead.
As daunting as this task may seem I'm looking forward to it. I will try my hardest to do this, and if I don't quite hit 50,000 words I'll have written something.
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Why do I get the feeling I'm going to see myself in here? I guess that's a dumb question. And I don't even really know the answer. But anyway. Try not to stress yourself out too much over this thing, just do what you can and see where it takes you. Have no fear, your editor awaits the finished project. Even if it's crap, just remember we always think our own work is bad, so it might not turn out as bad as you think. I don't know, we'll see how it turns out. Good luck.
By the way, with regards to your first question, I could think of a whole slew of things. For future reference, if you care at all for your sanity (and mine) you probably shouldn't ask such questions when you know I'm the one reading them.
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